Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Dionysius of Halicarnassus (60/55 - 7 BC) was a Greek teacher of rhetoric and a distinguished literary critic, who mixed in with Rome's upper crust after the civil wars which created the roman empire.

He wrote on many topics and also wrote his Roman Antiquities in twenty books, a history of Rome from the legendary beginnings to 264 BC. Books I-X and most of XI still exist, with fragments of the rest. He also wrote On the Arrangement of Words, On Imitation, On the Early Orators, On Thucydides, and On the Eloquence of Demosthenes.

A work entitled The Art of Rhetoric is associated with his name but may actually have been written later. Very rhetorical and prone to inserting dubious speeches, still a valid and valuable source. "History is philosophy learned from examples."

Books Related to Roman Culture, Society and Daily Life:

To Be A Roman: Topics in Roman Culture

by M. A. Brucia & G. N. Daugherty

Each chapter in this workbook designed for middle- and high-school students presents well researched, current, readable information on a topic the family, education, entertainment, political life, to name a few.

This agenda-setting text has been fully revised in its second edition, with coverage extended into the Christian era. It remains the most comprehensive and engaging introduction to the sexual cultures of ancient Greece and Rome.

This is the first attempt to reconstruct what your average Roman talked about in the bar or in the multi-seater latrine. All Latin is translated and all due care is taken of the non-specialist's requirements.

About UNRV

United Nations of Roma Victrix (UNRV) represents the all encompassing power of Rome in the ancient world. United and Romanized, through conquest, or absorbed through its culture, Rome still stands today as a legacy to the achievement of mankind, and its failures.